Re: memetics-digest V1 #1350

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sun 18 May 2003 - 18:57:04 GMT

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    > On Sunday, May 18, 2003, at 04:22 AM, memetics-digest wrote:
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    > > the selfsame meme would be encoded somewhat differently [in the
    > > memeinthemind model]
    >
    > And that is, if not a straw man, at least an equivocation worthy of a
    > master confidence trickster, if not a politician.
    >
    > Calling two separate things 'the selfsame thing but encoded somewhat
    > differently' is a prime example of dodging the question, and ignoring
    > the reality.
    >
    > And it's plain sloppy.
    >
    > - Wade
    >
    Nope; An oyster is still an oyster, even if the shell had to grow into a shape different from other oysters to accommodate the cliff to which it attached itself.

    What is sloppy beyond Occamic justification is to claim that every performance is a shiny new meme, nonrelational to all its predecessors and antecedents.
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